Denmark: Cartoon Racket Continues

Jyllands-Posten, you may recall, is the newspaper that originally published the notorious cartoons of Muhammad that ultimately touched off worldwide Muslim riots. Now it appears that Muslims in Denmark, seeing that the Danes have not punished the cartoonists for exercising their freedom of speech, are bent on exacting some kind of retribution.

Here’s an article from Reuters with much better background information:

A court ruled that Pia Kjaersgaard, leader of the Danish People’s Party (DPP), did not libel the Islamic Faith Community when she accused some of its members of treason for traveling to the Middle East to publicize a Danish newspaper’s publication of the drawings, which caused a worldwide uproar in 2006.
The court said the term “treason” was not libelous because it was used extensively in public debate. It ordered the plaintiffs, a loose network of Danish Muslim organizations which says it represents 50,000 members, to pay Kjaersgaard 40,000 Danish crowns ($7,400) in costs.

Flemming Rose, the Jyllands-Posten culture editor who made the decision to publish the cartoons, writes at Pajamas Media (thanks to Blicher):

Islamic Society of Copenhagen can’t accept the secular laws of Denmark, and therefore they plan to seek support in the Middle East for a fatwa against Jyllands-Posten, if the newspaper is acquitted in a pending civic case, which a number of Muslim organizations has initiated against the paper, and if the European Human Rights Court also makes a decision that goes against the legal demands of the Muslims.
This is tomorrows top story in Jyllands-Posten.
”Until now nobody has had to answer for insulting our prophet. We have no choice but to ask for a fatwa,” says Kasem Ahmad, spokesman for Islamic Society, referring to the publication of the 12 cartoons of Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten September 30, 2005….

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Now this is Denmark speaking:Â

Kasem Ahmad,Its YOUR ‘profit’- not ours.Muhammad was a caravan raider, serial rapist, child molester, arsonist, torturer and genocidal mass-murderer. If you think you have no ‘choice’-Â you better leave Denmark before Denmark smokes your sorry ass…

Are you reading this, Ahmad?Â

Comment:

All of us who have followed the cartoon brouhaha from the beginning owe a debt of gratitude to Flemming Rose for his courageous efforts to break down the Islamic “haram” barrier and restore universal freedom of speech. Nothing is more harmful to the Muslims and their faith than to bar their religious texts and leaders from the normal exegesis and historical analysis that allows religions to advance with the advancement of civilization. Just as some early Jewish and Christian practices (such as having meals with corpses in the catacombs) are obsolete, there is no shortage of Muslim practices (such as eternal jihad) which need to be reconsidered in view of current humanitarian values.

What constitutes “insulting the Prophet” was basically the cartoonists’ juxtaposing Muhammad’s 7th Century values with those of the current century. It’s not Muslims who should feel insulted, but rather all of humanity by those who insist that those values are timeless, sacrosanct, and superior to all other values.

It must be a certainty that nobody ever stubbed the toe of Mr. Perfect because had it happened we surely would have heard about it endlessly for the last 1400 years. No perceived slight is too minor for the peaceful ones-they MUST harp on every single one of them in perpetuity. No other people in the world holds grudges over the most ridiculous things for the longest time like this bunch. This mentality must be the reason why cesspoolia is the mess that it is-too much braying about trivialities and not enough effort to improve their lives.

It is a pity that Muslims decided to come to the West, and then tried to force the Islamic agenda on Westerners. The default position of the West is to critically examine any idea or thought that comes before it. This examination has led to the revelation of what the koran and hadiths constitute, and the thoughts, actions, and the depravity of the founder of Islam.

Public interest in Islam as a consequence of 9/11, has led all this to become public knowledge, where previously it was the preserve of scholars. A case in point. The Crusades are now regarded, and correctly so, as a desperate defence of Christians and Christian lands, from repeated Muslim invasions.

None of this would have happened if Muslims had not come to the West, or just lived like Hindus and others. Now the cat is out of the bag.

The perverted nature of Mohammed has been revealed. Inevitably, this has led to the caricature of Mohammed, and given his lamentable character, ridicule. And not just to Westerners, but also to tens of millions of Muslims, who otherwise would have continued to be good Muslims. But now they know. And no matter what they do, the seeds of doubt have been planted in Muslim minds, even in Muslim nations.

None of the contempt of Mohammed and ridicule heaped on him would have happened if Muslims had stayed in Muslim lands. Islam would still have had respect in the West, born of ignorance albeit, and Muslims in Muslim lands, would have been content in ignorance as well.

The problem for Muslims now, is how to wipe out the contempt, caricature and ridicule that have been heaped on Mohammed. This is what this fatwa is about. There are only a couple of choices

1. Accept reality. In which case the caricature, ridicule etc, stand for posterity.

2. Fight back. The only way the caricature and ridicule etc can be expunged is for Muslims to conquer the Western world, and make it Islamic. Then and only then, will Mohammed’s honour be avenged, and the shame erased.

Of course, the last means that Muslims will have to conquer the West with bloodshed. Unlikely. It is more likely that the reverse will happen. Islam will then be erased. If OTH they don’t do anything, the canker of contempt etc, will sit there in the Islamic world, and eventually destroy Islam. This is the dilemma that Muslims have put themselves in.